The Linux desktop has come a long way. It's a fully usable, stable, and secure operating system that can be used quite easily by the masses. Not too long ago, Sun figured they could do the same by starting Project Indiana, which is supposed to deliver a complete distribution of OpenSolaris in a manner similar to GNU/Linux. After using the latest version for a while, I'm wondering: why?

The 800 MB of RAM is because of ZFS. ZFS is supposed to be wonderful because it caches lots of stuff in RAM, but unlike normal cache, ZFS cache isn't freed when applications need more RAM... It just stays there. What you get is an utter RAM hog.

Pardon, but this isn't true. Please cite your sources if you have proof otherwise.